Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years’ Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West

Dodge, Richard Irving

Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years’ Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West

Hartford

A.D. Worthington and Company

1883

Though dated in some respects, Dodge’s cultural survey of the peoples of the Great Plains and the Southwest remains a vital reference for study of the indigenous peoples of the region. This copy is Clemens’s own, which he studied and extensively annotated while preparing to write Huck and Tom Among the Indians. Among the 350 individual annotations in his copy of the book are handwritten plot ideas for the story.